Windows Vista Upgrade

[yoshi]

Does anyone know how Vista upgrade works? For example, I want to perform a
clean install of Windows Vista. Do you know if Vista will ask for the
previous windows OS dvd to verify that it can upgrade?

Or does it want XP already installed to do the upgrade?

Hope that makes sense.

Thanks,

Midas

 

[Thorsten]

Does anyone know how Vista upgrade works? For example, I want to perform
a clean install of Windows Vista. Do you know if Vista will ask for the
previous windows OS dvd to verify that it can upgrade?

Or does it want XP already installed to do the upgrade?

Hope that makes sense.

Thanks,

Midas

Hi,

Windows XP has to be installed, started and then you insert the
Vista-Upgrade-DVD.

Then you have two choices :

1. Inplace upgrade : This means your system with all settings will be
upgraded.

2. "Clean installation" : Means the old windows Xp will be moved to a
folder called windows.old and then vista will be installed


The installation process with booting from the update-dvd and then
starting the setup, and entering the old xp-cd as a update-check is not
anymore possible with the vista-upgrade-DVD.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

The two options are upgrade install and custom install. There is no clean
install option presented to the user.

 

[yoshi]

Collin,

So are you saying... if you have Windows XP already, there is no "clean
install/upgrade" option available?

Thanks,

Midas

 

[John Barnes]

Custom install - Fully virgin copy of Vista bits with no impact from XP. XP
is however rolled into a file which remains behind and can be deleted when
done.
Upgrade - Fully virgin copy of Vista bits with following action by the
install program of installing your XP programs on the Vista bits.
Clean install - format drive and install virgin Vista bits with no other
files or settings from XP. Not available using the update versions.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Correctomundo, John Boy!

Of course this only applies to x86. Vista x64 should allow a classic clean
installation.

 

[Guest]

Yoshi,
Read this:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=414&tag=nl.e589